Email Author Clay McNear

Awards

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "He's With the Banned"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Chick Magnates"

• 2010 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Acidic Jews"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "No-holds Bard

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Pat Murphy's Law"

• 2009 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Expatriate Games"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Someday My Prints Will Come"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "The Dirt Devil Wore Prada"

• 2008 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Four Leaves and a Rake"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Carnival of Shoes"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "From Hair to Paternity"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "50 Ways to Love Your Liver"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "The School of Hard Box"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Noir is Hell"

• 2007 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Praise the Lard"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "O Solo Trio"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Quantum Bleep"

• 2006 - Arizona Press Club Awards

  "Tome Capsule"

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1998 Stories by Clay McNear

• Bless the Beasts and Kids

  published May 14, 1998

  Beneath a white-gold moon shadow, a lioness breaks into song. Her call of the wild -- a throaty blues -- sounds like a cross between a wolf's yowl... More >>

• Night & Day

  published May 14, 1998

  Thursday May 14 IMAX offers mind-blowing images of the natural world as a matter of course, but its occasional stabs at injecting... More >>

• Night & Day

  published May 7, 1998

  thursday may 7 Trilling like a songbird caught in a storm, Canada's Jonatha Brooke created her own mini-monsoon with the 1995 album... More >>

• A Cocktail of Two Cities

  published April 30, 1998

  Dave Hickey loves Houston, and Houstonians in the know love him back. He's a cult figure here, and his (loving) take on living in our city-state... More >>

• Night & Day

  published April 30, 1998

  Thursday April 30 The late Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev is best known for his children's suite Peter and the Wolf -- and that's... More >>

• Night & Day

  published April 23, 1998

  thursday april 23 The 27th annual Houston International Festival might be called Six Banners Over the Bayou; it features a sextet of... More >>

• Seemen Mixer

  published April 16, 1998

  So how does one land a gig whipping up compressed-air-powered robots? For Iowa-born Kal Spelletich of San Francisco's... More >>

• Night & Day

  published April 16, 1998

  Thursday April 16 San Francisco and Houston couldn't be more different: One's blessed with bounteous beauty, the other's a swamp;... More >>

• You're Not from Texas

  published April 16, 1998

  Scotland's Duncan McLean knows more about Texas swing than most Texans; it's an avocation, a pure-hearted love of the form, that sucks up much of... More >>

• Night & Day

  published April 9, 1998

  Thursday April 9 Texas Monthly has always been a good read, but, image being everything in this postliterate age, the style honchos... More >>

• Loop de Loop 610

  published April 9, 1998

  The best ride of the day was not on a roller coaster but in a stretch limousine; it purred there on pitted asphalt, gleaming like polished bone in... More >>

• Night & Day

  published April 2, 1998

  Thursday April 2 Fans of post-folkie Shawn Colvin know she has a ringing bell for a voice and a knack for slugging the occasional... More >>

• The Postmod Squad

  published March 26, 1998

  Ego and art have always been bedfellows, whatever the medium of expression. And Trisha Brown is the acknowledged (and self-acknowledged) master of... More >>

• Night & Day

  published March 26, 1998

  Thursday March 26 Though Galveston's IMAX Film Festival is billed as a spring-break special, it strikes us that most of the bikinis... More >>

• Night & Day

  published March 19, 1998

  Thursday March 19 Who among us -- out on an evening stroll, say -- hasn't had the sort of pedestrian encounter with mortality... More >>

• Beer Haul

  published March 19, 1998

  Everything's bigger in Texas -- even the microbrewery. But while Texans and beer have always gone together like cowboys and beans, we... More >>

• Press Picks

  published March 12, 1998

  thursday march 12 "Local Heroes" and "Four Wheels, One Eye: Art Cars in the Eyes of the Image Makers" These exhibitions, unrelated... More >>

• Press Picks

  published March 5, 1998

  thursday march 5 "Small Deaths: Kate Breakey" Who among us -- out on an evening stroll, say -- hasn't had the sort of pedestrian... More >>

• Press Picks

  published February 26, 1998

  thursday february 26 The Houston Ballet The ensemble recycles a trio of music-powered crowd pleasers for its winter-repertory... More >>

• Press Picks

  published February 19, 1998

  thursday february 19 The Skatalites The stellar Jamaican group not only invented ska (and, by extension, reggae), but the 'lites... More >>

• Press Picks

  published February 12, 1998

  thursday february 12 "Robert Rauschenberg: A Retrospective" Rauschenberg's credentials as one of the world's leading contemporary... More >>

• Press Picks

  published February 5, 1998

  thursday february 5 "Bound/Books by Artists" Many of Houston's top visual artists (and a couple of out-of-towners) contributed to... More >>

• Press Picks

  published January 29, 1998

  thursday january 29 "SCALE: small" The group exhibition focuses on "work that imitates life without getting too realistic about it,"... More >>

• Press Picks

  published January 22, 1998

  thursday january 22 The Colored Museum George C. Wolfe of the New York Shakespeare Festival and the Joseph Papp Public Theatre took... More >>